I covered this song a few years ago and decided to re-do it in a much more simple sort of way.
Original song written by Ednaswap, made famous by Natalie Imbruglia

Torn (Ednaswap/Natalie Imbruglia cover)

my track from VoidDweller's "EMPLOYEE" remix album.
https://voiddweller000.bandcamp.com/album/employee-remixes

VoidDweller - I Am Not Immune To Being Subsumed By Capital (burnt-feathers remix)

(this is the part of my body where divinity touched me,
a rough approximation of where and how it was felt
and why it felt that way and who felt it and for how long)

a ten-thousand-eyed-something-staring-you-down,
a gaze that sears and boils the skin
for just an instant and then it looks elsewhere.
uncountable sets of jaws snapping shut on your phalanges
before lifting to show you unscathed.
a hand that teases and does not provide orgasm.
it arouses you, which disgusts you,
which arouses you
because you're no stranger to denial.
to be tied up for centuries,
all along knowing that you'll be set free tomorrow.

we stepped away from love, pages at a time,
until flames consumed the library.
we emerged, soot-soaked, with nothing left to need.
sat and prayed for the safe passage of what we'll never read.

no way to know how many.
nobody counting, no need for it now.
fully aware of what the other hands are doing--
i watch them all let go at once,
trust, and follow suit.

twenty-seven saltires i've found my self affixed to,
ninteteen explanations for what was done to my soul,
nine attempts to get even,
none successful.

i do not lose control anymore.
i only give it away.

in the light of total love

with desired wings [unmastered]

"herbicide for the invasive sword-lily"

1.
quintuplication surveillant
you were sawing at the arm 
of some so-called parasite
dancing with serrated blade 
graceful maneuvers
gruesome endeavors delivered with a smile

it was something caught on tape
some kind of home movie
or realistic fake home movie
a beast that moves swiftly, fluidly, firmly,
speaks so assuredly 
in de-spirited co-opted bad-faith semiotics
even breath itself is staged

2.
quintuplication surveillant
whose presence rots grape and vine 
who confuses, who falsely divides
who starves the flock and drains the well dry 
hear, feel, fear our cry

we pray for sun's light
beams to blind or smite
boil and burn away lies
swift bright end to panoptic death drive
nine eyes of mine stare down your five

glint of knife,
star in sky
vast expanse makes no reply

your fires sputter out at night
ours roar and come alive

burnt-feathers

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